It took volunteers from the Feldhausen Fire Service a whole day
to construct a 15.5-meter-long “vehicle” that could be
featured in the Guinness Book of Records, the Dorstener Zeitung
newspaper reported on Monday.

To document the event and prove that there was no cheating,
participants filmed the whole process from three different
angles. Now, firefighters are reviewing the materials made by
eye-witnesses.

A field near the town of Dorsten in northwest Germany attracted
dozens of spectators who came to see how the ambitious project
was carried out by cherry picker cranes and good old-fashioned
elbow grease.

The construction was completed by 10:30 pm on Saturday. There was
a small delay, so a night shift team had to be involved.

“The individual parts were done quickly, but it took longer
than we thought to put them all together with the crane,”
organizer Florian Spickermann told the newspaper, adding that the
firefighters were “pleased and happy, but totally worn
out.”

The success of the firefighters will be announced in three
months, and it’s hoped that the “truck” will make an
appearance at the fire department's jubilee party in July.